AYA’S BOOK RATING SYSTEM (1 to 10 Stars with 1 Star the highest rating–so busy reading can’t take time to hit more than one star!)
- ( no response to a four-alarm fire in the trash can next to reader)
- (distracted, barely mumbles) Hmm? Did you say something? Okay, whatever, now go away
- (picks up head, blankly stares at interruptor then resumes reading with a wave) Go away. You’re disturbing my reading
- (picks up head, momentary alertness in eyes that says reader is in the present) Did you say Godiva chocolate and a venti mocha? I’ll take some. (promptly returns to book)
- (shuts book with a bookmark to hold place and sets it next to favorite chair before going into the kitchen to fix cup of coffee and retrieve chocolate. Returns and resumes reading)
- (shuts book, tosses it on the couch, goes out to have supper at Italian Restaurant. Resumes reading late that night)
- (tosses book on end table, resumes reading a couple of days later)
- (Looks at book, leafs through it) Yeah, I’ll read this when I run out of other books.
- (picks up book and opens it to read. Sighs) Guess it beats reading the back of a cereal box
- Pass me the cereal box